Faisal Khan filmed talking about 'changing headteachers' in Bradford

In video footage, the man accused of being at the centre of the Bradford plot,
Faisal Khan, says it took “number of years” to “change the headteacher” at
schools in the city

11:29PM BST 03 May 2014

In video footage, the man accused of being at the centre of the Bradford plot, Faisal Khan, describes how he and his colleagues have worked for a “number of years” to “change the headteacher” at schools in the city, adding: “We have to do that for every single school… we have to be there, on governing bodies, because that’s what it’s all about...It’s time we took these schools back.”

Mr Khan, a councillor formerly for George Galloway’s Respect party, now sitting as an independent, insisted last night that his sole motive in removing head teachers was driving up standards and said he had no wish to “Islamise” schools.

Mr Khan, the BMEF head, is chairman of governors at Carlton Bolling, a large, mainly Muslim but secular secondary school in Bradford. He was also a governor at Laisterdyke, another large secular school in the city, until last month, when he and all Laisterdyke’s other governors were fired by the council.

Staff at both schools said Mr Khan had led both sets of governors in “constant attacks” on their headteachers to drive them out and had succeeded at Carlton Bolling, where two successful non-Muslim headteachers have quit.